Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . - I ^ WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES Of ASIA MINOR. 77 chants are lodged, and their wares stowed, rising sometimes to the height of two orthree stories, ascended by stairs, and connected by galleries and corridors. The areahas frequently a fountain of pure water playing in the centre, is planted with shrubsand trees, and the fronts are trellaced with vines climbing over the roofs, affordingagreeable shade, or pendent with rich clusters of fruit. Some of them are very pictu-resque and pleasing objects, and afford a most grateful re
Constantinople : and the scenery of the seven churches of Asia Minor . - I ^ WITH THE SEVEN CHURCHES Of ASIA MINOR. 77 chants are lodged, and their wares stowed, rising sometimes to the height of two orthree stories, ascended by stairs, and connected by galleries and corridors. The areahas frequently a fountain of pure water playing in the centre, is planted with shrubsand trees, and the fronts are trellaced with vines climbing over the roofs, affordingagreeable shade, or pendent with rich clusters of fruit. Some of them are very pictu-resque and pleasing objects, and afford a most grateful repose to the tired and heatedtraveller. As the indispensable duties of charity, formerly prescribed to Moslems, andstrictly followed, are daily becoming of looser obligation ; the fountains, khans, andother erections of piety and charity, are rapidly falling to decay and ruin, and no newones are erected to supply their places. The town of Guzel-Hissar, the caravansary of which is given in the illustration, issupposed to be the ancient Tralles, stigmatized by Juvenal
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